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i just started playing a little while ago and i was wondering. how do i contribute? do i contribute? is there something i could be doing instead of drawing random garbage to see what evolves? should i just not worry about it and leave the science to the people who know what they're doing?

Howdy, I'm Nessie, and I just started playing with Golly the other day after looking up Mystic Smoke on wikipedia (where i learned that the term i was after was Magic Smoke) and falling into a rabbithole of software engineering that eventually landed me on the page for CGOL. I like to draw, and like...

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